{"id":440894,"date":"2026-01-31T13:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T13:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/440894\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T13:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T13:21:08","slug":"lake-nona-member-lydia-ko-shares-lead-with-lottie-woad-at-lpga-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/440894\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Nona member Lydia Ko shares lead with Lottie Woad at LPGA opener"},"content":{"rendered":"

ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Lake Nona member Lydia Ko shot a 5-under 67 on Friday for a share of second-round lead with Lottie Woad in the LPGA Tour\u2019s season-opening Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions.<\/p>\n

Ko, the 2024 tournament winner and a Hilton Grand Vacations ambassador, is the lone player in the 39-woman field without a bogey after two days. The Hall of Famer has 23 LPGA Tour victories.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had to hole some good par putts, but I really haven\u2019t put myself in that many difficult positions as of yet,\u201d said Ko, from New Zealand. \u201cI think that\u2019s why I had the two bogey-free rounds. I\u2019m hoping to kind of continue that good momentum this weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Woad shot a 69 to match Ko at 8-under 136 in mostly sunny conditions with 12 mph wind at the most in the 70-degree afternoon.<\/p>\n

\u201cI looked at the leaderboard quite a lot today because I was getting annoyed,\u201d Woad said. \u201cSeemed like there weren\u2019t that many low scores out there, so kind of knew I was still in it. The pins were probably a little trickier so weren\u2019t as many birdies as yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nelly Korda finished her second round at the LPGA\u2019s Tournament of Champions in Orlando with a 1-under 71. She\u2019s looking to chase down Lydia Ko and Lottie Woad while dealing with suboptimal weather in Florida this weekend.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old English player won the ISPS Handa Women\u2019s Scottish Open last year, weeks after taking the KPMG Women\u2019s Irish Open as an amateur on the Ladies European Tour.<\/p>\n

Nasa Hataoka, also a Lake Nona member, was a stroke back with Amy Yang. Hataoka had a 71, and Yang shot 69.<\/p>\n

Defending champion A Lim Kim was 6 under after her second 69. Youmin Hwang (67) and Ingrid Lindblad (69) also were 6 under.<\/p>\n

Top-ranked Jeeno Thitikul and Kelly Korda were 5 under. Thitkul had a 72, and Korda shot 71.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the weather is going to get a little worse so I\u2019m going to go to the putting green, go to the range because wasn\u2019t hitting it the best today,\u201d Korda said. \u201cJust going to figure some things out ahead of the weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Baseball player Aaron Hicks topped the celebrity field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Lake Nona member Lydia Ko shot a 5-under 67 on Friday for a share of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-440894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}